Sub work

December 4th, 2018

Today In class we were told to read page 84 and 85 of our packet and take notes. So here is our classwork.

• approximately 80 million people migrated to the United States between 1820 and 2015, which also includes the 42 million people of the 80 million that were still alive as of 2015
• There were three eras of immigration which included colonial settlement, mass European immigration and Asian and Latin American immigration
• The US population in 1790 was 3.9 million people
• The main places where people came from to the United States was Europe and Sub- Saharan Africa
• Around 1790 about 62% of the United States immigrants were from Europe
• Between 45 and 50% of the immigrants who came from Europe came from parts that are now known as the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland
• Most of the immigrants that came from Africa were forced to migrate because they were slaves
• 38% of the immigrants that were from Africa were shipped to America by the British
• To import slaves was made illegal in 1808
• Even though it was made illegal another 250,000 slaves were brought to the United States within the next 50 years
• The difference between the African immigrants and the European immigrants was that the African immigrants came over as slaves and the Europeans voluntarily came to the United States
• In Europe they had a rough time with economic time and their was religious persecution which could make it hard to distinguish the difference between forced and voluntary
• Between 1820 and 1920 32 million more people migrated to the United States 
• 90% of the immigrants were from Europe because the United States offered a great opportunity for economic success
• The annual immigration made a big jump starting at 20,000 people climbing to 200,000 people
• Emigration from Ireland and Germany resumed following a temporary decline during the US civil war
• The industrial revolution caused a rapid population increase in Scandinavia
• Immigration to the US dropped during the Great Depression and picked back up around 1950
• Because of the Immigration Reform and Control act, several hundred thousand people received visas who had entered the country without legal documents
• Europeans left their country when they were in stage 2 of the demographic transition
• The symbolic closing of the frontier coincided with the end of the peak period of emigration from Europe

All in all today's class went pretty good and we got to do our blog in class which is a bonus.